St. Paul City Council President Amy Brendmoen wants us to know that she and her lodge mates are “fully aware that there has been an increase in random crimes in the recent months, including particularly carjackings and robbery” and they also know that “community members are understandably concerned.”
Or livid. Livid works. The word community has been so stretched and tossed around and reconfigured over the years that it is difficult to understand what community she means. The lot of us, the taxpayers still trying to believe in this city? Certain segments of the city, different neighborhoods? Because what is called an increase in random crime is more likely a torrent, a collapse of moral and ethical integrity in every corner of the city. No neighborhood is safe, not with 73 more serious crimes this year versus the same period last year, and we’re only 45 days into a new year.
Teens rough up a couple of female clerks at Talbots in Highland Park. A mother, foolishly, leaves her car running with a 6-year-old inside while she goes into the Walgreens at Snelling and Randolph. The car is gone when she comes out, but the child is mercifully found safe two blocks away. The Gnome on Selby Avenue is on a pace to be burgled about three times every 10 days. And the Gnome has 21 security cameras!
St. Paul Assistant Police Chief Robert Thomasser told the council last week that the police are continually dealing with repeat offenders. He related the story of a man trying to break into six homes. On the seventh attempt, he got into a St. Paul home where two people in their 70s were sleeping. A neighbor witnessed him cutting a screen and called the police, who set up a perimeter around the house and arrested a 38-year-old man as he ran from the Highland Park residence.
The man charged in that break-in was already going through the court process for two other cases he was previously charged with in Ramsey County and has seven prior felony convictions. Murder might keep you in jail these days, but not much else.
“We’re chasing the same people over and over and over,” Thomasser told the council.
Catch and release, which works great for fish, is happening all over the country, especially the closer you get to the country’s tallest buildings, where the political class increasingly looks at crime as the result of poor circumstances, lousy odds and bad luck, rather than seeing crime for what it is, a violation of peace and lawfulness.
We are dealing with only the crime we are hearing about. A couple of Saturdays ago, I walked into the Walgreens on Grand Avenue to get a ream of copy paper, which is germane. I followed into the store three teenage girls who parked two cars on Grotto alongside the store. It didn’t take me a minute to fetch the paper and go to the cashier. As I was paying for the paper, the three girls, each carrying a hand basket of what looked like beauty products, scurried out the door, giddily. Wait a minute. There was no way they paid for that.
I went outside and watched them squeal away. I got a license number for one of the cars and took it back inside to a store manager.
“Do you know you just got ripped off?”
“I know,” he said.
“Do you want a license number?”
“Sure, I’ll call it in.”
Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t, but the fellow was clearly resigned. It must be a frequent occurrence.
We are short 36 police officers compared with this time last year. Those of us still trying to believe in this city would prefer them preserved in the “austere” budget that still apparently funds the mayor’s large Cabinet of people about whom we know nothing or what they accomplish.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com. Soucheray’s “Garage Logic” podcast can be heard at garagelogic.com.
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